Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15.00-16.00 GMT – Zoom Webinar  (Register via Eventbrite here) Building resilience: community empowerment through adaptive reuse Communities across Scotland are increasingly taking ownership of buildings and transforming them through adaptive reuse. This talk addresses this growing trend and examines how such grassroots projects of reuse can act as engines of resilienceContinue reading Building resilience: community empowerment through adaptive reuse

Wednesday, 6 March 2024 10.00-11.00 GMT – Zoom Webinar  (Register via Eventbrite here) Contemporary archaeology and architecture: ruination, rubble and revenance This talk considers the movement of architectural materials between construction, demolition and destruction and reuse. Using ‘contemporary’ archaeological approaches* in conjunction with archival, anthropological and creative methods, I discuss how buildings are rarely asContinue reading Contemporary archaeology and architecture: ruination, rubble and revenance

Wednesday, 13 March 2024 14.00-15.00 GMT – Zoom Webinar (Register on Eventbrite here) Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the building and heightening of the Aswan Dam under the oversight of British engineers (and, later, Egyptian capital) radicallyContinue reading Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People

14.00-15.00 GMT – Zoom Webinar History-based approaches in the strategies for the preservation of the abandoned heritage The lecture presents the result of the research Processes of Abandonment of the Architectural and Urban Heritage in Inner Areas: Causes, Effects, and Narratives (Italy, Albania, Romania) funded in 2021 by the DAStU Department of the Politecnico di Milano. Continue reading Wednesday, 31 January 2024

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar   This masterclass is jointly offered by the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and the Schools of Architecture + World Heritage [SAWH]   Urban UNESCO World Heritage: Authenticities and Potentialities Urban UNESCO World Heritage sites are living places, where heritage not only acts as a formal backdrop, but must playContinue reading Wednesday, 24 May 2023

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar The coming past: building with heritage   Luc Verpoest Prof. em. Luc Verpoest has been teaching history of architecture (19th and 20th century) and history and theory of architectural preservation. Research was focused on the 19th century Gothic Revival in Belgium, Modern Architecture and architec­tural preservation. Luc Verpoest is HonoraryContinue reading Wednesday, 17 May 2023

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar   Contrasting approaches to conserving visual history and identity in London and Edinburgh Historic views have played a significant role in London and Edinburgh’s separate and distinctive evolving city identities. This lecture will consider how the pressures of urban change and the consequent visual effects on the settings of majorContinue reading Wednesday, 10 May 2023

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar This masterclass is jointly offered by the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and the Institute for Historic Buildings Conservation – IHBC Scotland Branch. The Cultural Heritage Code in Romania: Concept and Evolution During 2008, within the context of the adoption in France and Italy of new legislation as Heritage Codes, theContinue reading Friday, 5 May 2023

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar   Sutton House and the old Royal London Hospital: Two studies in sustainability Richard Griffiths will talk about the conservation and design issues raised by two projects that he has undertaken; Sutton House, a Tudor house owned by the National Trust, which he rescued from a derelict condition as aContinue reading Wednesday, 03 May 2023

12.00 – 13.00 BST, Zoom Webinar   Tourism and Historic Centres: How to Regulate and Plan Tourism to Safeguard the Heritage Values of Historic Sites Historic urban centres have important heritage values that justify their inclusion in various legal protection systems. Urban planning instruments allow the preservation of formal aspects (buildings, urban layout…) but are notContinue reading Wednesday, 29 March 2023